Siamese crocodile habitat discovered
A wild SiameSe crocodile neSt haS been found in Cardamom Mountain area by Fauna & Flora&rSquo;S Cambodian Crocodile ConServation Program team, working in collaboration with the Koh Kong provincial Department of Environment, ForeStry AdminiStration (FA), and local community. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/siamese-crocodile-habitat-discovered
Exports to Thailand increase 9.47% in first five months of 2023
Cambodia’s exports to Thailand hit $480.239 million in the first five months of 2023, up 9.47 percent year-on-year (YoY) from $438.705 million and up to 84.47 percent half-on-half (compared to July to November 2022) from $260.33 million. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Yatt Malai
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodia-exports-to-thailand-increase-947-in-first-five-months-of-2023
NBC: E-wallet accounts in Cambodia hit 17.9M in 2022
The number of e-wallet accounts in the Kingdom reached 17.9 million at end-December amid an acceleration in electronic payment volumes driven in part by Covid-19 anxiety, reflecting gradual fintech (financial technology) development towards achieving the government’s digital economy objectives. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/nbc-e-wallet-accounts-cambodia-hit-179m-2022
Consumers’ complaint mechanism soon, NBC says
The National Bank of Cambodia has prepared a draft proclamation on standardised or common consumers’ complaint response mechanism for all banking, payment and financial institutions in the country to comply with NBC’s guidelines after consumers have expressed dissatisfaction over the existing mechanisms, said a senior ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501325554/consumers-complaint-mechanism-soon-nbc-says/
‘CPP vow to strengthen national solidarity, will ensure peace’: Samrin
National Assembly President Heng samrin, in his capacity as honorary president of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), said his party remains dedicated to enhancing national unity, disregarding political affiliation, gender, religion, ethnicity, or social status. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Tith Reanu Pichet
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cpp-vow-strengthen-national-solidarity-will-ensure-peace-samrin
Preah Sihanouk land encroachers remove shacks, sign contracts
The Preah Sihanouk provincial authoritieS detained a group for allegedly encroaching on State land in Chamnot Ream village of Prey Nop diStrict&rSquo;S Bit Traing commune and diSmantled the 18 hutS they had built there. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Orm Bunthoeurn and Bor Pich Zelin
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-sihanouk-land-encroachers-remove-shacks-sign-contracts
Agriculture players can tap into new loan system
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) and Wing Bank (Cambodia) Plc have inked a deal that will offer accessible, low interest rate loans to support the government’s Agriculture Priority policies through the innovative Wingagri supply chain platform built specifically to support the sector. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Yatt Malai
https://kiripost.com/stories/agriculture-players-can-tap-into-new-loan-system
ICC Angkor looks forward to challenges, future growth
The Fourth Intergovernmental Conference on Angkor at UNESCO in PariS haS concluded, with King Norodom Sihamoni SuggeSting that UNESCO Send technicianS to help Cambodia with human reSource training to combating the illegal trade in artefactS, and preparationS for the future regiStration of the Kingdom&rSquo;S tangible SS='cambodia-color'>...
Van Socheata
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/icc-angkor-looks-forward-to-challenges-future-growth
NBC is determined to strengthen the resilience and supervision of the financial sector in Cambodia
The newly appointed governor of the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC), H.E Dr. Chea Serey, gave an in-depth interview to Khmer TimeS on the Bank&rSquo;S aS well aS her prioritieS in her role aS the Governor. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501377581/nbc-is-determined-to-strengthen-the-resilience-and-supervision-of-the-financial-sector-in-cambodia/
New $21M NEC building set for Oct 2025 completion
The National Election Committee (NEC) January 2 held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new office building, constructed on land acquired by the government from Kong Korm, a former opposition leader. The site is located on sothearos street in Tonle Bassac commune in Phnom Penh’s Chamkarmon ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kim Yutharo
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-21m-nec-building-set-for-oct-2025-completion
Justice minister urges focus on legal and judicial reform
Minister of Justice Koeut Rith calls on court and prosecutor’s office leaders as well as judicial and law enforcement officials at all levels to prioritise “legal and judicial reform”. He also called upon civil society organisation (CsOs) to endorse this initiative. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kim Yutharo
https://phnompenhpost.com/national/justice-minister-urges-focus-legal-and-judicial-reform
Gov’t revenue $4.9B, spending $6.3B
The government’s national revenue collection in the first 10 months of 2023 reached nearly $4.9 billion, equating to almost 78% of the target set by the 2023 Law on Financial Management, while total expenditures stood at over $6.3 billion, as reported by the Ministry of ss='cambodia-color'>...
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gov-t-revenue-4-9b-spending-6-3b
Visa launches SMB Online Toolkit to enable tourism merchants to maximise benefits of contactless payments
Visa, a world leader in digital payments, is introducing resources to help Cambodian merchants and tiny and medium-sized businesses (sMBs) take full advantage of Visa’s digital payment solutions to optimize the customer shopping experience and increase sales, particularly in the tourism sector. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501486613/visa-launches-smb-online-toolkit-to-enable-tourism-merchants-to-maximise-benefits-of-contactless-payments/
Korea FDI in Kingdom reaches $5 billion, says Prime Minister
Prime Minister Hun Manet yesterday said that the bilateral trade volume between the Republic of Korea and Cambodia reached approximately $751 million while Korea’s foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Kingdom recorded $30 million last year, taking the total FDI from the country to $5 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Nhean Chamrong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501489820/korea-fdi-in-kingdom-reaches-5-billion-says-prime-minister/
FAO launch PEARL agriculture initiative
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has announced a partnership with Cambodia’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and the Ministry of Environment to launch the Public-social-Private Partnerships for Ecologically-sound Agriculture and Resilient Livelihood in Northern Tonle sap Basin (PEARL). ss='cambodia-color'>...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fao-launch-pearl-agriculture-initiative
ISF Cambodia, the organization dedicated to ending child poverty
Children make up nearly 35% of Cambodia’s population, and 48.7% of these children (ages 0-17) live in multidimensional poverty. Children have the right to an education, but many schools in Cambodia are structurally and hygienically inadequate. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501386808/isf-cambodia-the-organization-dedicated-to-ending-child-poverty/
Cambodia and China reaffirm their commitment to continue working closely in advancing the MLC cooperation
On 15 March 2024, Meas Kim Heng, secretary of state of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and Mekong-Lancang Cooperation (MLC) sOM Leader of Cambodia, received a courtesy call by Chen Cong, Minister-Counsellor of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501456861/cambodia-and-china-reaffirm-their-commitment-to-continue-working-closely-in-advancing-the-mlc-cooperation/
TVET key to Cambodia becoming upper middle-income country
Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) has been championed by the highest levels of the Cambodian state as well as a myriad of international donors and development partners, who correctly understand it to be a cornerstone of Cambodia’s National strategic Development Plan, sustainable Development ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kevin Nauen
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501575857/tvet-key-to-cambodia-becoming-upper-middle-income-country/
B Kak Firm Seeks Bauxite in Mondolkiri
Bauxite reserves in Mondolkiri province abandoned by Australian mining form BHP Billiton in 2009 are now being explored by China’s Mongolia Erdos Hongjun Holding Group, the same firm that is behind the controversial development of Boeng Kak lake in Phnom Penh. Kong Pisith, director of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Damning revelations
An environmental group has accused the Lao government of “unilaterally” pushing forward with construction on the controversial Us$3.8 billion Xayaburi dam on the Mekong River, despite serious concerns about the project and an incomplete regional decision-making process. In a statement released yesterday, conservation group International ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011080550883/National-news/damning-revelations.html